I was wondering if anyone had a script or way to randomly select a name based on a list. So heres the problem, i have one person who entered the raffle one time. The next person entered lets say 5 times and so on. The fist person should only get one chance to win while the next person should get 5 chances to win
Assuming the top row for labels and names in ColumnA, 'times' in ColumnB then:
In C2 and copied down to suit:
=sum(B$2:B2)
In D1:
=RANDBETWEEN(1,Sum(B:B))
Then:
=iferror(index(A:A,match(D1,C:C,0)),index(A:A,1+match(D1,C:C,1)))
Alternatively, list the "next person" five times as often as the other two, select the complete list, apply Data > Randomise range and pick the one at the top of the list, say.
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Hello stack overflowers.
I have recently been creating a nutrition tracker to better track and control my nutrition. However I have run into an issue. So currently I have a 1 sheet in the nutrition tracker which is a "database" of foods and their macro nutrients per gram. In this sheet, I will enter all the foods that I generally eat and their associated per G nutrients.
this food "database" sheet has the following columns.
FOOD NAME, CALORIES, PROTEIN, CARBS, OF WHICH SUGARS, FAT, OF WHICH SATURATED, FIBER, SALT
This database is then used as a reference, so that when I input each meal as I eat it, I can simply select the food from a drop down list and type the number of G in that meal, and the nutrients will all be calculated for me.
I currently have it setup so that I can select food from the drop down list generated by "foods" sheet, within each meal table I have created. This is then correctly filling in the rest of the columns as expected once I input a weight for each meal. There is however a huge problem.
As soon as the FOOD NAME column of the Foods sheet had values in it below row 7 (not sure why this row is the limit) the whole thing stops working, the data grabs based on VLOOKUP just return 0 and do not act as they are meant to. The strange thing is they work absolutely fine until I enter too many foods (7 foods) into the foods sheet.
Please find below a link to my spreadsheet, maybe you can duplicate it and play around a little yourselves to better understand the issue.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1orwih7s_Z4ew8G1vJcR6qlxyMpX8pqK-3Ynj42qQjcQ/edit?usp=sharing
(if you help me fix it, you will have a free nutrition tracking spreadsheet to help you take control of your diet aswell)
Thanks in advance.
In the June tab, clear all formulas in the range D11:K18.
Then enter in D11
=ArrayFormula(IF(LEN(B11:B18), IFERROR(VLOOKUP(B11:B18, FOODS!A:I, {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, 0)),))
This single formula will process all values entered in B11:B18.
Note the third parameter of VLOOKUP (set to false). If it is ommitted (as in your formula) it will default to 'true'. That means vlookup expects a 'sorted order' which may not be the case for your data.
References
VLOOKUP
try:
=INDEX(IF(B11:B18="";; IFNA(VLOOKUP(B11:B18; FOODS!A:I; COLUMN(B:G); ))))
OS: Windows 10
Here's the basic idea:
I have a list of foods that are on the left side, and when I decide which foods I want, I then decide what order I want them in. After they are in the right order, G7-J7 (Linked Foods) should automatically place a hyperlink based on what food I selected in the Order of Food. How it pulls these links should be from the List of Foods. Then, at the bottom, there are 4 images that will automatically be shown based on what link is in the Linked Food boxes.
Basically, what I did, was I made the Linked Food 1 formula =IF(G3 = "Ramen", D2, "No Link Found").
And then for the Food 1 image, I did =iferror(arrayformula(image(G7)),"")
The image should automatically be there for whatever link I put in the G7 box now, but the G7 box is the main issue I'm having.
Everything works, but this is only an example. In my REAL project I'm doing, I have tons and tons of "foods" and I can't just put =IF(G3 = "Ramen", "Lemonade", "Tofu", "Fruit Punch", ...and the hundreds of others.
SO...What I'm wondering, is if there's an easier way to make these links automatically change, without having to manually put every single item from the List of Foods into the formula.
Any help is appreciated!
It is somewhat unclear if the question is asking this for google docs or Excel, but the solution is basically the same either way.
What you want here is called "VLOOKUP". You will be replacing this line:
=IF(G3 = "Ramen", D2, "No Link Found")
with
=VLOOKUP(G3, C2:D8, 2, FALSE)
This will take the value of cell G3 (Ramen in the example case) and search the range of C2:D8 (all the cells on the left of your table) until it finds it. Once it does it will go to the second column of the range (C = 1, D = 2) and take the matching cell value. The FALSE at the end has to do with sorting but shouldn't play a role here.
Note that your range needs to be the entire size of your foods list so change that D8 to DX where X is the size of your list in rows.
You can read the full syntax for VLOOKUP at: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093318?hl=en
I've tried looking for an answer to this online for a few hours now, but I just can't work out how you'd describe it, or find an appropriate answer.
I have a spreadsheet where I'm wanting to pull out an ID in Column A into a separate tab, but only if it contains a certain phrase that's contained in Column E. In this separate tab, I then don't want there to be any gaps in between the IF statements.
So for example I want the next tab to pull through the Action ID if column E contains 'Client'. If it doesn't, it searches the next row and so on until it finds one that does contain 'Client'. Row 2 on the separate tab would then continue the search, but it wouldn't be filled with something if it doesn't find the word 'Client' - it instead would continue searching down until it found one that has the word in.
So for example - if the first ID that contains the right phrase is in Row 5, I want it to appear on the separate tab in Row 2, underneath the heading. Then, if the second ID with the correct phrase in column F is in Row 11 for example on the main tab, I then want it to be pulled through to Row 3 on the separate tab. And so on..
This will then allow me to do lookups for the rest of the values I want to input on the separate tab.
I've tried as many different IF statements as I can, but it's just not having it.
Any advice would be really appreciated.
You can use INDEX and AGGREGATE combination:
=IFERROR(INDEX($A$2:$A$6,AGGREGATE(15,6,1/($E$2:$E$6="Client")*ROW($E$2:$E$6)-1,ROW()-1)),"")
In Google Sheets you can use FILTER (docs) for that. Place it in the top cell of your column.
={
"Your Header";
IFNA(FILTER(A2:A, B2:B = "Client"))
}
If A2:A and B2:B are from other tab named My Tab it will be 'My Tab'!A2:A and 'My Tab'!B2:B.
My wife runs a dance school, and occasionally needs to calculate the average age on a given date of a group of dancers. I'm not having a problem with the age calculation and averaging, but I wish to add a feature:
My sheet has all dancers in her company listed. Currently, we copy them all, paste to another sheet, and then delete the ones not included. That's a PITA, so instead I'd like to be able to put a checkbox in the first column, that when checked, would INCLUDE the associated age column in the calculation. So, she could just go down the list, click the included dancers, and it would calculate the average JUST for the selected ones and ignore everybody else.
Honestly, at this point, I have ZERO idea of where to start to do this and need a gentle push in the correct direction. Assume I'm an idiot and know almost nothing.
Here's an example sheet with the new checkbox feature to illustrate the function:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G8LJyS10yi1HIa2MNHCbWUJPso9QAit3i0cO8A-Uw3A/edit?usp=sharing
I placed the formula above the "Age" column (Column C), and the Checkboxes in Column A:
=iferror(AVERAGEIF(A3:A,TRUE,C3:C),"NO DANCER'S SELECTED!")
This also displays an error message in case no dancer's are selected.
Try this. It looks for 'y' in column A. Assumes names are in column B and ages in column C. You can adjust the columns to match you sheet, and change the 'y' to whatever value you want to enter. It will average the ages of the rows with 'y' in column A:
=AVERAGEIF(A2:A,"=y",C2:C)
We have asked users:
What to do with the money?
[ ] paint the bridge
[ ] rebuild the school
[ ] keep the money
[ ] Other : [____________________]
Here is the spreadsheet with their answers:
A B
1 Name Choices
2 Lilia paint the bridge, rebuild the school, keep the money
3 Paul rebuild the school, paint the bridge, do something else
4 Margerite keep the money, I don't know, do what you want
5 John paint the bridge
...
800
I want a formula that output the number of official choices (excluding other) picked per user.
With the first 4 rows of data, the formula would output this table:
D E
Nbr of choices a user made Frequency (Nbr of users who made these choices)
0 0
1 2
2 1
3 1
Couldn't find a way to get this right from a single formula. For a starter, I wanted to split each line (of B2: B) by "," but couldn't find a way to apply a fn (split) to each line in an formula...
Even with 800 rows of data (B2:B), the resulting table (D2:E5) would always be 4 rows long plus titles (and two column wide)
I could do this in C2, and replicate manually with the "+" corner icon...
=countif(B2;"*rebuild the school*")+countif(B2;"*keep the money*")+countif(B2;"*paint the bridge*")
And then do in E2:
=arrayformula(countif(C2:C;D2:D5))
But I'd like to generate the table of frequencies in one formula, without any manual action (without C column).
So I am looking for a way to "map" the first function to each row, put this in the second fn.
ANSWER by Akshin Jalilov EXPLAINED
This is the answer by Akshin Jalilov, but shorter (and with international notations)
=ARRAYFORMULA(COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(IF(B2:B="";;COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA
(IFERROR(IF(FIND("paint the bridge";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)));"="&row(B2:B))
+COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND(
"rebuild the school";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)));"="&row(B2:B))
+COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND(
"keep the money";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)));"="&row(B2:B))));"="&D2:D5))
Step1:
IF(FIND("rebuild the school";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)
This means, for each row (B2:B) find "rebuild the school". If you find it, return the number of the row, otherwise, return 0.
Step2:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(Step1))
Wrap this in an ARRAYFORMULA so that you return the results for each row.
I think IFERROR is there to prevent an error from stopping the process.
Step3:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(B2:B="";;COUNTIF(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("paint the bridge";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)));"="&row(B2:B))+countif(Step2)+countif(ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("keep the money";B2:B);Row(B2:B);0)));"="&row(B2:B))))
This will count valid votes made by each users. This is equivalent to C2 formula referred in my manual process. But is it now part of a single global formula.
Step4:
Lastly, the rest of the formula counts frequencies of each voting count possibilities.
I know this formula is large but this is the closest I got to what you want.
Now to make it easy, name your responses range "Responses". I assume it is B2:B.
Here is the formula:
=ARRAYFORMULA(Countif(ARRAYFORMULA(IF(Responses="",,COUNTIF(VLOOKUP(row(Responses),({ARRAYFORMULA(Row(Responses)),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("paint the bridge",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("rebuild the school",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("keep the money",Responses),Row(Responses),0)))}),2),"="&row(Responses))+COUNTIF(VLOOKUP(row(Responses),({ARRAYFORMULA(Row(Responses)),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("paint the bridge",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("rebuild the school",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("keep the money",Responses),Row(Responses),0)))}),3),"="&row(Responses))+COUNTIF(VLOOKUP(row(Responses),({ARRAYFORMULA(Row(Responses)),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("paint the bridge",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("rebuild the school",Responses),Row(Responses),0))),ARRAYFORMULA(IFERROR(IF(FIND("keep the money",Responses),Row(Responses),0)))}),4),"="&row(Responses)))),"="&D2:D5))
Here is an example if how it works. I am not sure which one exactly you wanted so added both